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- Troubled Waters
- Alan Furst's newest spy thriller plumbs the darkest undercurrents of prewar Europe. By David Samuels
- Unmasking the Monster
- Mystery writer Douglas Preston teams up with a local reporter to investigate a string of brutal murders that the Italian police couldn't — or wouldn't — solve. By John Leake
- Lost Highway
- Stephen Shore's obsessive travel journal brings his seminal work into focus. By Tasha Green
- Terra Incognita
- The author of Confederates in the Attic sets out to prove that everything we know about America's origins is wrong. By Dan Halpern
- Wicket Games
- In post-9/11 New York, an outsider builds a new life out of an old pastime. By Liz McDaniel
- Brief Encounters
- With his first story collection in years, Tobias Wolff captures life in short. By Tasha Green
- Rider on the Storm
- An oral history tells the many lives of the man known as Da Cat — surfing legend, California icon, and globetrotting fugitive. By Sara James
- Word Trip
- A debut novel charts a mythic quest to the heart of how people communicate. By Liz McDaniel
- Pump Up the Volumes
- When John McWhinnie isn't selling rare editions, he's creating his own. By Oliver Schwaner-Albright
- War Stories
- Nicholson Baker, author of The Mezzanine, trains his microscope lens on a very big picture: the gathering storm of World War II. By Benjamin Anastas
- Perp Talk
- Richard Price returns with a novel that captures the sound and fury of gentrified Manhattan's underbelly. By David Knowles
- Pirelli Calendar Girls
- Since 1964, the luxurious Pirelli Calendar, sent out only to an exclusive group of VIPs, has celebrated beauty while pushing the boundaries of photography. A selection of some of the 800 images from The Complete Pirelli Calendars (Rizzoli), out in March.
- Martial Art
- Cartoonist Bill Mauldin braved the battlefields of Europe to reveal the wry truths behind the tragedy. By David French
- East is East
- John Burnham Schwartz, author of Reservation Road, takes on the mysteries of the Japanese royal family. By Phoebe Eaton
- Voice of the Wilderness
- Wallace Stegner spent a lifetime spinning tales of real life in the West. A long-anticipated biography celebrates one of America's natural wonders. By Hampton Sides
- A Stand-up Guy
- Steve Martin, America's greatest anti-comic, looks back on the serious business of being funny. By Alessandra Stanley
- Speed of Life
- A daredevil sport reveals its adrenaline-flushed beauty when an up-close look at Formula 1 racing freezes time and catches heat. By Tasha Green
- Fallen Angel
- A new biography takes the measure of Gram Parsons, a good Southern boy with a heavenly voice and some hellish demons. By Michael Walker
- Murder, He Wrote
- A flamboyant journalist covers a killing spree—his own. By R.J. Smith
- Problem Child
- Award-winning biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore discovers the boy who would grow up to be Stalin. By Michael Korda
- Return Trips
- Denis Johnson, the visionary author of Jesus' Son, delivers a hallucinatory saga of the Vietnam era. By Jerome Weeks
- Deep Impact
- When baseball was America's favorite pastime, every struggle on the diamond loomed larger than life. By Bill Vourvoulias
- God Only Knows
- Hollywood's favorite bedroom-community chronicler looks into sex ed and the born-again set. By Benjamin Anastas
- India Ink
- Paul Theroux, the ultimate inveterate traveler, explores the heart of the modern subcontinent. By Benjamin Anastas
- Book Lust
- A chronic bibliophile discusses the pleasures of foxing, exchanging rare editions with a significant other, and how to discover what is, in fact, real. By Sophie Dahl
- Ike's Big Gamble
- Imagine if, in the summer of 1944, America's armies landed in France as occupiers, not liberators. That, after all, was Washington's official plan. But the Allied supreme commander — Dwight D. Eisenhower — blazed his own path into Paris, freeing France, saving Europe, and becoming America's greatest hero. From Michael Korda's Ike: An American Hero
- Fantastic Voyager
- Ryszard Kapuściński spent a lifetime reporting the world. But in his final work, he praises the ancient Greek who kept him tethered. By Lawrence Osborne
- Continental Divide
- The author of The English Patient returns with a tale of gamblers and storytellers that veers from northern California to the South of France. By Mark Rozzo
- In Like Quinn
- Long before "paparazzi" became an epithet, photographer Edward Quinn gained access the old-fashioned way — with subtlety and charm. By Tasha Green
- Stranger than Fiction
- How wind-up birds, talking monkeys, and a cache of jazz vinyl turned Haruki Murakami into Japan's best-selling export. By David Samuels
- Grand Ol' Partier
- America's favorite blue-blooded satirist takes on red-state politics and turns the looming Social Security crisis into the stuff of comedy. By Hudson Morgan
- Inspiring Adaptation
- Jhumpa Lahiri's dazzling tales of assimilation take readers from Calcutta to Cambridge. Now the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer crosses the border from page to screen. By Benjamin Anastas
- True Crime on the Coffee Table
- A gallery show and a related book, Cyanide and Sin, bring the dark art of the true-crime magazine into the light. By Owen Phillips
- From Russia with Lust
- The bad boy of British fiction casts a mature eye upon one of the twentieth century's gravest horrors, the Soviet Gulag — and crafts a love triangle to remember. By Benjamin Anastas
- Peter Beard's Dream
- Collages by the artist will soon be available in a mammoth new collection — as they were always meant to be seen.
- William Eggleston: 5X7
- A new monograph of the photographer's work brings to light the craft and artistry of a master. By Nicholas Mosquera
- Lion's Share
- A rich scrapbook of the twentieth century from James Laughlin — an avid skier, a bon vivant, and the literary powerhouse. By Geoffrey O'Brien
- Time Bandit
- How tennis, martinis, and a Xerox machine helped the master reporter Gay Talese turn procrastination into perfection. By Phoebe Eaton
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